2022 Best Practices from World Libraries Photo Gallery (Curated by The International Relations Round Table IRRT International Connections Committee)

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Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

The “Best Practices from World Libraries” photo gallery presents a selection of photographs from around the world, which feature library projects and programs that best demonstrate this year’s IRRT Presidents theme: Global libraries as agents of leadership in our post pandemic world.

This collection of photographs has been curated by the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) International Connections Committee…

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Is the United States of America a Democracy, a Republic or an Oligarchy?

Mohammed Abbasi

The United States is both a democracy and a republic, but the terms are not mutually exclusive. So let us break it down whether the United States a democracy or a republic:

The United States a Democracy?

• The United States is a democracy, because, the people, hold ultimate political power.
• It is not a “direct democracy,” but a “representative democracy.”
• Representative democracy means voting in elections to choose representatives – this makes it a representative democracy, but remember the United States Constitution does not use the term “democracy.”

The United States a Republic?

• The United States is a republic because its elected representatives exercise political power

The United States an Oligarchy?

• A recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page concludes that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy while average citizens and mass-based…

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